Senior Lecturer & Associate Professor
Queen’s University Belfast
Jelena obtained a MSc degree in Traffic Engineering, major in Logistics Systems, at Belgrade University in Serbia and completed PhD studies in 2012 at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Her PhD project was devoted to designing robust supply chains and assessing supply chain vulnerability. She joined Queen’s University Business School/Queen’s University Belfast in October 2012. Since then, she has taught logistics, supply chain and operations management courses in management undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (in line with PRME), coordinated research seminars for the Management Group and supervised post-graduate and PhD students. Furthermore, she taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the area of logistics, operations and supply chain management at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering (Serbia) as well as in international, specialized, agri-food MBA programs. To date she has supervised more than 50 MS dissertations, consultancy projects and academic research projects. In the last three years, she was part of the judging team in competition of best Irish logistics and transport companies. In research, she is interested in creating knowledge on sustainable supply chains that are economically viable, environmentally friendly, socially responsible (in line with SDG12), as well as robust and resilient to an occurrence of unexpected events. Her key research area is focused, but not limited to food supply chains and related industries, as well as issues in circular economy and reverse logistics. By now, she has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed articles published in international journals and book chapters.